All the new friends, yang menjadi keluarga bagi saya, membuat kehidupan saya semakin berwarna-warni.
Tidak hanya teman-teman, kesempatan untuk bisa berstatus mahasiswa kembali, betul-betul menjadi hal yang sangat saya syukuri. Yes, it is hard. Very hard. But then again, it’s worth it. It’s really worth it. Meskipun harus jungkir balik gak karu-karuan. Even though the library becomes the place where I spend more of time than in my apartment. Walaupun tugas, PR dan laporan praktikum bagaikan ombak yang gak habis-habis… Saya tetap merasa sangat bersyukur. My instructors are excellent. The academic atmosphere is great. The feeling that there are so many things out there that you want to know, that science offers things you’ve never expected before…

Yes, the thing that makes me quite sad about this year is the fact that I have to be so far away from my family and some of my friends. Berada begitu jauh dari Mama, Abah dan Ita sometimes feels so hard. But then again, saya berusaha meyakini, bahwa saya berjuang disini untuk membuat mereka bangga.

Minggu, 29 Desember 2013

Namanya aja udah bikin males ya? Well, Final Week, sudah bisa ditebak, adalah minggu untuk Final Exam. UAS kalo istilah kita mah yaaaa…. Nah, trus kalo di Indo ada yang namanya Minggu Tenang (yang sebenernya lebih merupakan Minggu Panik sih ya), disini gak ada tuh Minggu Tenang. But the week before the Final Week, is called as Dead Week. Dead Week itu nama populernya, nama resminya sih Preparation Week, that sounds more academic. But we prefer to call it as Dead Week, secara minggu ini terasa lebih mematikan. Usually Dead Week is the deadline of all the projects for the semester. You know, the project that you know you should have been doing earlier but you keep on procrastinating and end up being panic when the deadline is approaching. Haha. Happens to all normal students.

Selama Dead Week dan Final Week, semua fasilitas kampus dibuka 24 jam. Bahkan di Hicks Library ( my second home :”) ), after midnight they provide free coffee for the students. Berasa banget lho Dead Week dan Final Week ini. Perpustakaan penuuuuuuhhhh…It’s just full with students desperately trying to finish projects and study. And you will see a long line at the café, when people trying to get their dose of caffeine. And yep, I was one of them.

And one of the most fun thing adalah the dinner that we had. Jadi in the middle of the dead week, kita para Fulbright grantee angkatan baru dapet undangan makan malam di Dean of Graduate Study. It’s a semi-formal dinner, so I think one of the nicest thing was, we dressed up nicely. Like, seriously, I rarely see my friends in formal clothes like that, where most of them wearing suit and tie. I usually see them wearing T-shirts and complaining about assignments or wearing sweaters and complaining about the horrible mid-west weather. So really, seeing them looking so good like that was very nice :).

Sometimes they can look good, wearing suit and tie ;)

Saya jadi yang paling cantiiikkk... :P

After the Dead Week, come the Final Week. And by the end of Dead Week, I have shifted from the state of “OMG-I-am-so-not-ready-for-final-exam” to the state of “whatever-I-just-want-all-this-to-end-soon”.

Don’t even dare to ask me how was the exam. It was worse than horrible.

Anyway, the last exam was Atmospheric Chemistry. Examnya jam 7 malem. And at that night was when the temperature in West Lafayette was -18°C, dan Real feel-nya adalah -23°C. Dalam ruangan ujiannya sih oke-oke saja. But the walk to and from the exam site was a challenge.

All the new friends, yang menjadi keluarga bagi saya, membuat kehidupan saya semakin berwarna-warni.
Tidak hanya teman-teman, kesempatan untuk bisa berstatus mahasiswa kembali, betul-betul menjadi hal yang sangat saya syukuri. Yes, it is hard. Very hard. But then again, it’s worth it. It’s really worth it. Meskipun harus jungkir balik gak karu-karuan. Even though the library becomes the place where I spend more of time than in my apartment. Walaupun tugas, PR dan laporan praktikum bagaikan ombak yang gak habis-habis… Saya tetap merasa sangat bersyukur. My instructors are excellent. The academic atmosphere is great. The feeling that there are so many things out there that you want to know, that science offers things you’ve never expected before…

Yes, the thing that makes me quite sad about this year is the fact that I have to be so far away from my family and some of my friends. Berada begitu jauh dari Mama, Abah dan Ita sometimes feels so hard. But then again, saya berusaha meyakini, bahwa saya berjuang disini untuk membuat mereka bangga.

Minggu, 29 Desember 2013

Namanya aja udah bikin males ya? Well, Final Week, sudah bisa ditebak, adalah minggu untuk Final Exam. UAS kalo istilah kita mah yaaaa…. Nah, trus kalo di Indo ada yang namanya Minggu Tenang (yang sebenernya lebih merupakan Minggu Panik sih ya), disini gak ada tuh Minggu Tenang. But the week before the Final Week, is called as Dead Week. Dead Week itu nama populernya, nama resminya sih Preparation Week, that sounds more academic. But we prefer to call it as Dead Week, secara minggu ini terasa lebih mematikan. Usually Dead Week is the deadline of all the projects for the semester. You know, the project that you know you should have been doing earlier but you keep on procrastinating and end up being panic when the deadline is approaching. Haha. Happens to all normal students.

Selama Dead Week dan Final Week, semua fasilitas kampus dibuka 24 jam. Bahkan di Hicks Library ( my second home :”) ), after midnight they provide free coffee for the students. Berasa banget lho Dead Week dan Final Week ini. Perpustakaan penuuuuuuhhhh…It’s just full with students desperately trying to finish projects and study. And you will see a long line at the café, when people trying to get their dose of caffeine. And yep, I was one of them.

And one of the most fun thing adalah the dinner that we had. Jadi in the middle of the dead week, kita para Fulbright grantee angkatan baru dapet undangan makan malam di Dean of Graduate Study. It’s a semi-formal dinner, so I think one of the nicest thing was, we dressed up nicely. Like, seriously, I rarely see my friends in formal clothes like that, where most of them wearing suit and tie. I usually see them wearing T-shirts and complaining about assignments or wearing sweaters and complaining about the horrible mid-west weather. So really, seeing them looking so good like that was very nice :).

Sometimes they can look good, wearing suit and tie ;)

Saya jadi yang paling cantiiikkk... :P

After the Dead Week, come the Final Week. And by the end of Dead Week, I have shifted from the state of “OMG-I-am-so-not-ready-for-final-exam” to the state of “whatever-I-just-want-all-this-to-end-soon”.

Don’t even dare to ask me how was the exam. It was worse than horrible.

Anyway, the last exam was Atmospheric Chemistry. Examnya jam 7 malem. And at that night was when the temperature in West Lafayette was -18°C, dan Real feel-nya adalah -23°C. Dalam ruangan ujiannya sih oke-oke saja. But the walk to and from the exam site was a challenge.